Back to School!

Mason's first day of preschool started today! He will go Tuesdays and Thursdays and he is so excited! (I am too!) Here is he is before leaving this morning!


I'm hoping to do this same picture with the chalkboard every year!

 His sweet friend Ava also goes to his school! I wish they were in the same class but she just turned four so she is in with the big kids!

 

 With his teacher Ms. Tonya. I can already tell I will love her. She has taught three year olds in this same class for 11 years now and seems so upbeat and loving!

 
Judging by his expression, I'm pretty sure Mason is thinking how embarrassed he is that I am always taking his picture.  :-/

 And of course I can't forget Connor! We had such a fun day with just the two of us!

 When I picked Mason up, he was super happy and ran to give Connor (and then me) a hug. His teacher said he did great! He was talking my leg off about his day and his two favorite things were the playground and the gym (of course!) We are looking forward to a great year!

Best buddies

When Mason was about 9 months old, we joined a playgroup with some other moms and kids his age. It was such a fun way to get out of the house and let Mason play with other babies his age! He especially bonded with three other boys in the playgroup and I'm now good friends their moms as well!

Well now fast forward 2 1/2 years and our 4 boys are still best little buddies! My friend Ashley, had a great idea to start a tradition of taking pictures of the boys every year before school starts! Hopefully it will be something that we do for years and years!

 We took them to the Mckinney square yesterday and bought them huge lollipops, hoping that would help them to sit still! Taking pictures of 4 three year olds isn't easy but we did get some cute ones! I'm so glad that Mason gets to grow up with these little guys!


 (Left to right Carter, Mason, Gavin and John)

Goodbye Summer!

It hit me today that Summer is almost over! Our neighborhood pool won't be open during the day starting next week, Mason has meet the teacher next week, swim lessons are over and stores are starting to fill up with fall things! I love summer but I'm definitely ready for fall!!  Here is how we are spending our last days of Summer!



Playing at Gavin's house! (Is that waterslide not the most amazing thing??)









Water table fun with baby friends!





Connor and his two girlfriends Ella and Lucy!






Jumping in the pool is Mason's new favorite thing!!






Playing some swimsuit golf






Swimming on his last day of lessons!










Here's a quick video of Mason at his last lesson! I'm so proud of how far he has come!

Goodbye Summer! You were fun!

Lately

Wow we have been busy lately! I feel like Mason and Connor work in shifts and one is always getting into something! I was trying to clear out my camera's memory card and wanted to share some random photos of what we have been doing the past few weeks!


A few weekends ago we took Mason to Adventure Landing to ride the go carts! He looooved it! Of course Daddy was a much more fun driver than Mommy!






 I don't have any pictures for this but Mason started private swim lessons on Monday! He is doing them with his teacher from his group lessons and wow what a difference private lessons make! By the end of his first lesson he was starting to swim under water on his own! He has six lessons left so I can't wait to see how much he will learn!



 Yesterday we went with our friends the Beckman's to the Dallas Children's Museum! The older boys kept us on our feet, (when do they not!) but we had a fun time! All of these pictures are of Connor, just
goes to show how busy Mason was!

 



 With his friend Ella (Carter's little sister)

 This morning we headed to the park for a while since it was only 83 degrees! Mason is so cooped up in this heat that I love getting him out to run any chance I can get!

 


 He almost climbed all the way up!